As Above, So Below, at Hypha Studios

Featured Artists: Elena Helfrecht, Camille Joy, Donna Perini

Photography: Carlo Zambon

What discerns mystery from the mundane? What separates the interior and exterior of the body? As Above, So Below explores such questions, bringing thirteen – how serendipitous – female artists together to enlighten the average man and his dog on occult and mystical practices. Curated by Camille Joy, the exhibit studies what mysteries hide in plain sight, and the shifting perception of the female body.

Featured: Dora Perini

Photography: Carlo Zambon

This curation esoterically investigates the tension between the physical and digital, and the inevitable slippage between them. Here, the natural teeters into technology, or the self into its other, serving to form a discourse around our relationship with modernity. Its title explores the parameters of visibility where familiar objects are dismantled to their verbose other. Think of freezers featuring animations of decay or of fridges metamorphosed into coffins - at least they are preserving the body.

The works themselves act as conjuring tricks, or sleights of hand between the familiar and unfamiliar; the visible and invisible. The space functions as a sensorial bath, with images, videos and sounds filling the room continuously and without permission. With installations and artworks producing strange and oracular encounters, we – the observers – are caught between two states.

Featured: Gabby Jonna, Vessel 2, 3 & 4.

Photography: Carlo Zambon

A continuous leitmotif connecting all works is the female body. Installations and films examine the forming of feminine bonds through narratives of consumption, both fears of and yearning for, while paintings question the parameters of the body and home. Feminine and weighted, objects and figures appear alive in liminal settings between magic and the mundane, inside, and outside. Playing with the dimensionalities of the body and the home, the curated works speak to whispered and underground conversations of esoteric tradition.

Features include playful yet macabre egg-vessel sculptures embedded with human features. These dislocate the body and question its attachment to objects while fighting off the burden of materiality. The mediums vary from technology, collage, and the slickness of oil painting – an enthralling choice as the medium’s wet materiality has been generally bound to its affiliation to the skin. The exhibition is strikingly curated, with works both conversing whilst standing alone - each distinctive, uncanny, humorous, and memorable.

Featured: Donna Perini

Photography: Carlo Zambon

The gallery is open Tuesday to Saturday from 12- 6 pm throughout November, whilst also hosting various events every Wednesday and Friday, including talks, performances, and workshops. Please see the gallery website for more information.

Recogniton to Hypha Studios for sponsoring the exhibition.